T-cell receptor

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T-cell receptor [′tē ‚sel ri‚sep·tər]

(immunology)

Protein on the surface of T lymphocytes that specifically recognizes molecules of the major histocompatibility complex, either alone or in association with foreign antigens. Abbreviated TCR.

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The same T-cell receptor also binds to molecules on other cells of the immune system as part of the systemwide activation process.

Why we need many "therapeutic targets" by Richert, John / Inside MS

If scientists can understand how T-cell receptor genes are switched on and off, and what they direct the immune system to do, they eventually may be able to halt such diseases.

SCIENTISTS DECODE LONGEST SEGMENT OF HUMAN DNA YET by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

They found that 15 of the sibling pairs had inherited the same two forms of the T-cell receptor gene from their parents and that only three pairs shared neither gene copy.

MS gene discovery: a piece of the puzzle by Wickelgren, I. / Science News

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